Obamacare is now the law
of the land for some, depending on which parts the president decides to
implement and which to delay. The elected representatives have turned a deaf
ear to all the calls, rallies, faxes, letters, op-eds, and direct visits to
their offices. They were so sure this type of medical insurance/care that John
Roberts termed a “tax” was right for Americans that they exempted themselves
from its burden. Furthermore, when our Congressmen who make a six-figure salary
complained that the exchange rates were so prohibitively expensive, they
received a special 75% subsidy to defray the cost. Who is going to help
Americans who make too much income to qualify for subsidies?
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas
made a 21 hour valiant effort in the Senate to give a final voice to the
unhappy Americans who wanted to keep their private medical insurance, their
doctors, the affordable insurance rates and plans, their full-time jobs, and
the ability to see a physician or have a test in a timely manner. Sen. Cruz was
ridiculed and maligned not just by liberals. Supposed conservatives and RINOs
were tripping over themselves on the way to the microphones in a chorus of
criticism to attack Sen. Cruz’s character, credentials, experience, and his
noble intentions.
The government computers
were not properly working and interfacing yesterday to tell Americans exactly
how much they would need to pay come October 1, 2013. And these bureaucrats are
going to tell us whether we can or cannot have certain medical procedures and
are going to be the repository of more than 307 million people’s medical
records, including our sexual habits, and the most intimate details of our
lives from birth to death.
A neurosurgeon called into
a nationally syndicated show telling the host that the infamous death panel is
already at work, advising him on whom he can operate and to whom he must refuse
surgery. I wonder how that would square off with the Hippocratic Oath doctors
have taken upon medical school graduation.
Even the Teamsters union,
the main supporters of the Obamacare, have change their tune now and asked for
another exemption from a law that will destroy their Cadillac insurance plans and
medical care. They were denied.
Since 85 percent of
Americans had some form of medical insurance, The Affordable Care Act was
supposedly designed and passed to help the 15 percent uninsured. At the end of
the full implementation of Castro Care, there will still be 30 million
uninsured and millions of workers relegated to part-time work to help employers
avoid the penalties of the law. Employers could not continue to offer highly
expensive private insurance plans whose cost have been driven into the
stratosphere by the onerous demands of Obamacare.
Obamacare has turned our
country’s labor market into a part-time work nation. It is debatable that it
was an unintended consequence. If this law was about health care, wouldn’t it
have been cheaper to just purchase insurance for the 15 percent uninsured
through some federal program? After all, we waste billions and trillions on wars
without end and purpose, and we have enough money to arm Al Qaeda terrorists
and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.
Come January 1, 2014,
people who chose not to buy insurance because they cannot afford the bare
minimum $20,000 a year Bronze Plan for a family of four, they will have to pay
a fine/tax of $95 or one percent of their incomes. Since taxes are paid for the
previous year when the ACA was in force only three months (October-December),
would the fine/tax for 2013 be prorated? I don’t think so.
We have been bombarded by
doctors, including our cat’s vet, to create a portal into the electronic
compliance that the doctors must submit to the federal government in order to
make sure that all of our medical data is out there for the world to hack into.
The emails keep coming with messages from family doctors to create these
portals and I keep ignoring them.
Concierge medicine is more
and more enticing to a lot of people until Congress will pass an amendment to
the Obamacare that will ban medical services for cash. In northern Virginia
many doctors already do not accept any form of government insurance and
concierge medicine is quite popular. But some people cannot afford the upfront
membership fee being that it is higher than the yearly premiums they used to
pay for comprehensive insurance through their employer.
Trader Joe’s part-time
employees and other companies’ employees had really good insurance for
affordable monthly premiums. Not anymore, Obamacare made sure that it was
destroyed. I hope that these very people who voted so enthusiastically for
President Obama twice, and have now lost their health insurance, realize that
this law was not about insuring the uninsured or improved health care delivery
or fairness, it was about control. “Evil” capitalist choices who kept people
alive and well, the envy of the rest of the world, have been eliminated with
the stroke of a presidential pen. Americans have nobody else to blame but
themselves.
My sweet Mother, who is 81
years old and way passed Castro Care’s cut off age for any meaningful medical
care, visits, tests, or procedures, has become a “unit” and must already beg
her physician for her arthritis medication refills. They are too expensive when
computed into the death panel formula for her usefulness to society.
Mom helped raise three
children and survived the oppressive communist regime in Romania. She
immigrated to the United States, the land of abundance and freedom, to live the
rest of her life in peace and free of worries.
My Mom is a lucky
octogenarian who does not have any major health issues. If she did, she would
be told by the IRS, our new doctors, to go home and take a pill, she had lived
a long life already. It angers me that Obamacare
makes mom’s life irrelevant and inconvenient.
The worth of any society
is dictated by how well they treat the sick and the elderly and how much they
value life. It is shameful how low we have fallen since we’ve allowed a liberal
minority to control who lives and who dies. As a society, we have lost our
humanity.
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